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psychop_rex (psychop_rex) wrote in scans_daily,

What I think needs to be done with characters like these is for them to go on a long hiatus. When they're constantly in the public eye, the temptation to jerk around with them for a quick thrill is just too strong for Didio and his Yes-Men to resist. Even if they're brought back to their former glories, he'll start whining about why aren't we being EDGY anymore, like when we turned Mary Marvel into an evil leather fetishist, oh say, those were good times, let's do a rerun on that - I think we should, don't you? And of course everyone says yes, because he's the boss, and we're back to square one.
If, on the other hand, such characters are carefully kept out of sight until the boss's enthusiasms have come to rest on some other poor fictional schmuck, then they can be edged back into the spotlight without being freakishly mutated yet again. (Actually, I think this should be the general policy even if a character has NOT been messed around with just yet - overexposure is very bad for a character. If someone is showing up in about fifty different books at once, then there is tremendous pressure to come up with new, interesting, innovative ideas for them - and inevitably, a good chunk of those new, interesting, innovative ideas turn out to be, well, crap that the writer came up with at the last minute because he was panicked and needed a script.)